HC Deb 21 January 1988 vol 125 c784W
33. Mr. Cran

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he intends to implement the recommendations of the joint Home Office and Department of Health and Social Security working party, on the problems presented by mentally disordered offenders in prisons in England and Wales.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

A number of the recommendations already have been or are being implemented. The recommendations aimed at increasing the extent to which mentally disordered offenders are detained other than in prison custody are to be taken forward in further discussion between Home Office and DHSS officials.